Latvian Conservatory of Music was founded in 1919 by the Latvian composer Jāzeps Vītols, who also became the first director of the Latvian National Opera. He remained director until 1944, excepting 1935-1937, when the director was his choral assistant Pauls Jozuus. There were junior and senior courses that covered around 9 to 10 academic years. Beginning in 1940, the structure of the conservatory changed: the lower junior courses were transferred in the secondary education system and later became a base for Jāzeps Mediņš's and Emīls Dārziņš's secondary schools of music. And there formed up courses of higher school in the conservatory. Beginning 1 October 1951, the LPSR Institute of Theater was joined to the conservatory, reorganizing it to a theater faculty with acting and directing departments. In May 1958, it was renamed the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian conservatory. In January 1964, the conservatory had been renamed to J.Vītols Latvian Institute of Art, but in July 1964 institute was renamed back to J.Vītols Latvian conservatory.
During nearly a hundred years of its existence, Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music has enriched Latvian culture with many excellent composers, performers, and music theory specialists. We are the only specialized academic music institution in our country, and we are responsible for the traditions and the future development of our Academy.
The Latvian music business's highly professional environment has been shaped by excellent professors and talented students of Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. They are listened to and recognized in Latvia and abroad.
We are proud of our achievements, and we believe it is a great honor to work and study at Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. We invite you to join us those who feel confident they can achieve and maintain the high academic and professional standards of our Academy. We believe in the great importance of studies' quality - alongside professional training in performance, choreography, musicology, and composition, we encourage our students to think, analyze, and evaluate independently. We are creative, democratic, and open to Latvian and international musical values.
We offer professional undergraduate and postgraduate programs and academic postgraduate programs in music performance, conducting, composition, music science, music pedagogy, and choreography. Doctoral level studies are available in the field of history and theory of music. Scientific research and artistic creativity are the cornerstones of all professional and academic study programs.
The main goals of the Latvian Academy of Music are to provide studies of exceptional quality in subjects of music, choreography and education sciences, humanitarian and social sciences to conduct research projects in arts sciences to encourage artistic creativity of the young musicians. Academy supports further education and cooperates as an independent entity with foreign institutions for arts and education. Academy has the legal status of a derived public entity. It has its emblem and flag. JVLMA is under the supervision of the Latvian Ministry of Culture.
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